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Moving Mountains: Colorado charts path towards IT consolidation in new report

March 16, 201087 Comments
Moving Mountains: Colorado charts path towards IT consolidation in new report

The Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) released a report earlier this month outlining the massive structural and organizational changes made of over the last six to eighteen months, as well as charting an ambitious course for projects in the near future. CivSource spoke with OIT Chief of Staff Dara Hessee and Chief Enterprise [...]

League of Cities, Mayors Conference voice support for Jobs Act

March 11, 20105 Comments
League of Cities, Mayors Conference voice support for Jobs Act

The National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) voiced their support for a bill introduced in the House of Representatives today, claiming the legislation would lead to a million jobs in both the public and private sector. The bill would provide $75 billion, over two years, in direct funding to [...]

Putting the ‘resource’ in human resource management

March 3, 20104 Comments
Putting the ‘resource’ in human resource management

Talent management is not something that most government employees think about on a daily basis. But during the last several months, the ranks of state and local government employees have given human resource managers a multitude of new challenges. Furloughs and early retirement offers are shifting the demographics of the government workforce, opening lanes for [...]

Hawaii task force calls for the creation of a state CIO

February 10, 201046 Comments
Hawaii task force calls for the creation of a state CIO

A task force assigned to make Hawaii’s state government more efficient and increase productivity has released a report recommending various information technology and procurement reforms, as well as the establishment of a senior chief information officer.

Missouri moves to make state more science and tech friendly

December 17, 2009138 Comments
Missouri moves to make state more science and tech friendly

In an announcement outlined Wednesday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon unveiled an initiative to grow the state’s science and technology sector through stable and ongoing funding sources. By establishing a dedicated fund for high-tech job growth, Gov. Nixon said the initiative would help nurture existing science and technology companies while generating an attractive environment for more [...]

CSC delivers Google Apps to Los Angeles city employees

December 15, 200963 Comments
CSC delivers Google Apps to Los Angeles city employees

Los Angeles city employees have ‘gone Google’ for their e-mail and other applications. And according to city officials, the cloud computing solution will have far-reaching benefits for all public sector agencies in the state.

Jobless claims increase more than expected

December 10, 200956 Comments
Jobless claims increase more than expected

According to the US Department of Labor, unemployment insurance claims rose 17,000 to 474,000 last week. These numbers come after five straight weeks of decline, catching some economists off guard. Unemployment claims were expected to be around 460,000, but a Labor Department economist told Reuters that “claims had been bumped up by seasonal industries laying [...]

Avoiding the pitfalls between policy and practice

December 9, 2009146 Comments
Avoiding the pitfalls between policy and practice

In their recent book, “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon…Getting Big Things Done in Government,” Bill Eggers and John O’Leary, developed a framework by examining seventy-five case studies of complex government projects, and they found that by breaking big projects into pieces, they were able to identify points of failure that followed [...]

Code for America hopes to give dot-gov some caché

November 24, 200958 Comments
Code for America hopes to give dot-gov some caché

Coming out of last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, the industry buzz was focused on the usual – cloud computing, social networking, and what to do with the latest Google innovation. But one catchy hook caught the ears of a few reporters: dot-gov is the new dot-com. One project announced during the [...]

Small businesses get help with government work in Colorado

November 17, 200936 Comments
Small businesses get help with government work in Colorado

Last week, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced the opening of a business assistance center, designed to help small businesses win government contracts. As Recovery Act dollars continue to roll out from the federal government, it’s important for small businesses to remain competitive, Ritter administration officials said.

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